Freakout Festival is an annual four-day underground music festival held at various venues around the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle each November.[1] Since 2013, this festival has featured a mix of independent and mainstream performers, and has garnered press from around the globe.[2][3][4][5] The programming primarily focuses on rock and roll, punk, and psychedelic rock music, but has also been known to include hip-hop, electronic and more experimental forms of music.[6]
The organizers behind Freakout Festival also run the associated record label, Freakout Records, which has operated since 2015, releasing an eclectic mix of rock and roll records from the Pacific Northwest.[9] Freakout Festival has also produced stages at SXSW and Treefort Music Fest, and collaborated with Mexico City's Festival NRMAL and The Lodge Room in Los Angeles.[10][11][12] In 2022, Freakout established the "Freakout Weekender", a 2-day mini festival held in spring in collaboration with The Crocodile.[13][14]